Wikipediocracy

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The site is running like a champ for me now. It's been a tough week accessing this site.

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The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:52 pm

rhindle wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:53 pm

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:13 pm
Time for a word limit for Crow.
The Mods should add a recipe of something to the end of all their posts.
That Doe Snot make any sense.

I was in the moment about how people who give out recipes online usually have a long drawn out story before they show what the recipe is.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:13 pm
Time for a word limit for Crow.

The Mods should add a recipe of something to the end of all their posts.

rhindle

Can one be more obtuse? In a nongeometrical way of course.

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To me, the process is more important than the outcome. ARBCOM is using secret evidence in a non-standard proceeding and refusing to allow the accused to properly defend themselves. This is bad. It's worse than the conduct alleged. Back in the day, iirc, Cla68 asked why there wasn't any due process ...

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Maybe she'll challenge Jimbo Wales to a match at Wrestlemania. It will be booked for her to win after Larry Sangar sneaks in and hits Wales with a steel chair. And the crowd will go who the hell is that nerdy dude?

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Unfortunately, the same can be said of Trump, who is less than a year from beating the corpse of Joe Biden because there isn't a Democrat in the entire country worthwhile enough to primary him. #RUTHBADERGINSBURG t FIFY Which is a shame though. If there was someone Dems, from moderate establishment...

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LOL, poor guy has reduced himself to calling me one of "Jake's bitches." Anyway, enough of that. Engaging is not worth the effort. Don't want to weed through finding 5% of something useful/somewhat interesting surrounded by 95% of bitter nonsense. I hope he gets help.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:02 am

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:35 pm
Crow's in a manic phase right now.

I do hope his wrangler can get him back on his meds.
lol

He's reading the site and screeing off into the night every time someone posts.

The vibe I get is someone who would be at a Mensa gathering and think he's a genius among idiots.

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Racist is as racist does.

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So Larry is Larry, that's easy -- and Jimbo is obviously Moe -- which leaves the WMF to be Curley, but then who's Shemp? jp×g 23:54, 19 November 2023 (UTC

Shemp is WMUK.

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Awful Announcing: ESPN and Disney’s X accounts went dark on Saturday following advertising pause Along with the advertising pause, it appears that Disney and its affiliates have paused posting altogether, at least for Saturday. As of 9:00 p.m. ET, none of the major X accounts affiliated with ESPN o...

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News organizations should also follow NPRs lead and ditch Elon's Dumpster Fire.

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This site and WR both helped in exposing many of the toxic editors that had a lot of power and influence in the early days. Some got banned, others left, or stayed under the radar. Those toxic editors tried to use BADSITES and attack any criticism of them like a certain ex-president does today but i...

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Checked the talk page and there has already been discussion about it.

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Jess Wade's BLP photo does not look like the greatest. It's not the worst one, but having an open mouth is not always "flattering."

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Women in South Korea - Mishmash of original research, poorly written prose that was probably fed through Google Translate, and (until recently) copyright violations. The same appears to be true of just about the entire topic area of modern South Korean society. Speaking of "Women in..." articles, I...

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Following Hamas' terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7th, 2023, Overwolf put out a post on X announcing that they stand with their own home country of Israel, against the battle of the Palestinians. This post, however, was met with insufferable backlash from countless individuals whom immediatel...

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Per nom=I have no original thought.

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One Year On, Twitter Continues to Burn a Hole Through Bank Balance Sheets

Paywalled but the subheading sums it up...

Banks have begun preparations to try to unload at least some of the $13 billion of debt they underwrote, at a steep discount

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Take the deal only if Elmo renames Twitter "Elon's Dumpster Fire."

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I left Twitter a few months ago. I have been mostly on Mastaodon and Threads. In the last few weeks, I have seen a lot of the accounts I saw on Twitter now on Threads. More keep trickling in every day.

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Can we bring back polls for just one subforum, Jake? I think so... We'll have to change each group's permissions specifically for that forum, but we don't have many groups so that's no big deal. (Also, bear in mind that voting in polls and creating them are two separate permissions.) So are we talk...

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I don't mean to necessarily chide him for this, but Mr. Bezdomni has done this before , where he'll start (or resurrect) a thread on the subject of glyphosate, Roundup ™, the Monsanto Corporation, or GMOs in general in which he appears to assume that everyone is highly familiar with the subject and...

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Hey, fair enough - I'm willing to have my blind spots pointed out. I'll admit I got to thinking about India and the other players east of Europe, and how disingenuous it would be to downplay their footprint in the global political theatre, not to mention how Europe is starting to tend more right wi...

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TikTok is more for the young ones. It can be vapid but it some have used it for more substantive purposes, pretty much like any other social media. I know some US politicians want to ban since it's a Chinese company and are afraid of security issues but it's also possible they just don't like some ...

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Looking into the bitbucket at the start of the thread, I see a TikTok link. This is the first time I’ve seen TikTok. Is there actually an upper IQ limit to posting and commenting there, or was this atypical? TikTok is more for the young ones. It can be vapid but it some have used it for more substa...

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Guh, just noticed the Roads Go Ever On topic covers most of this, aside from the RSChen resignation. Should I delete this? I don't think you need to do that. That has been a long-running thread but this is a new development so starting a new thread about a new development on that topic is fine imo....

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Don't they have their own roads wiki? If they don't, they really should.

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This account makes Elon sound quite similar to Billy McFarland of the Fyre festival fiasco. Both refused to take no for answer no matter how reality-defying saying yes would be.

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Since WP is not original thought nor original content creation, any use of AI is fair game to me. Gnoming stuff and source formatting could be easier to make and give certain people more free time who probably need it.

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I do not think outing is necessary if their IRL identity was private from everyone. If their IRL was well-known but not totally in the public it may be more reasonable. I personally think outing, or even doxxing, is fair game for those who weaponize their anonymity to abuse the power they have or ca...

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2 words BHG needs to add to her vocabulary: brevity and conciseness.

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I am not completely following this but if BHG was a defendant and acted this way, the judge would kick her out of the courtroom. I know Arbcom is not a court but a motion to block (or partial block) her during the case seems like a valid position to take here.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 02, 2023 6:08 pm
His Twitter is a mess of right wing nutjob conspiracy theories.

Sanger or Greenwald?

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I finally had to shut down my Twitter account. I've had enough of Elon's incompetence. I am on Mastadon which lets me see replica posts of some accounts I follow but can't interact. I also started a Threads account since I already have Instagram. Threads is supposed to join the "fediverse" at some p...

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tarantino wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 16, 2023 6:39 pm
Kelly Martin, "Last active: Thu Jul 06, 2023"

Thanks. I just see a dash there.

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A good person to have interviewed would have been Kelly Martin (the author may have, but it doesn't look like it), who has a lot of insight of the early days. She frequently used the phrase "of the body" iirc to describe the social capital of haves and have-nots on enwp. I don't know if she still st...

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Prompted by an exchange of letters in a local newspaper about Schrödinger's cat , I performed a web search to find out whether Schrödinger ever did own a cat, and, if so what its name was. I was confidently informed by many web sites, including a Facebook page of Physics Today , and a web page of I...

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JzG has chimed in. He disagrees with the fake news label but isn't really a fan of PR either. A lot of effort sure was put in to making sure that "fake news" label stays at the top with that hidden source bomb.

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Elon is really Musking things up.

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This seems similar to what happened the Palmer Report where it was expanded upon in a negative light but using RS. Thread about it here . These are issues of activism on wp which can be worse that paid editing at times. The question is if all this activism is encyclopedic. However, you just have to ...

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Therealgamer1234 wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:35 am

Zoloft wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:47 pm

Therealgamer1234 wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:40 pm
Wikipedia Sucks says so.
It is most definitely broken.
How?

It needs more cowbell.

rhindle

Unsurprisingly, the article has been cleaned up already. The "George" has been removed.

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It is true that WPians can say "look, we fixed the error that you pointed out thus proving wikipedia works!" but alas the error is spread all over the net before the damage is done.

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One thing that I saw happen back in the day was when a group of editors spent months arguing on talk pages about what should or should not be in an article but finally find a consensus version to put out. Things are peaceful for a little while but a new editor comes in and pretty much undoes the co...

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One thing that I saw happen back in the day was when a group of editors spent months arguing on talk pages about what should or should not be in an article but finally find a consensus version to put out. Things are peaceful for a little while but a new editor comes in and pretty much undoes the con...

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Maybe he'll feel better if someone shows him our unflattering portraits thread.

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Since Elmo made blue checks useless, is a notable person's tweet still a reliable source now that a blue check does not represent an authentic account?

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Cat and dog torture videos litter Twitter, adding to concerns about moderation Laura Clemens, 46, said her 11-year-old son came home from his school in London two weeks ago and asked if she had seen the video. “There’s something about a cat in a blender,” Clemens remembered her son saying. Clemens ...

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